Laliş
E776576
Laliş is the holiest temple complex and pilgrimage site of the Yazidi people, located in the mountains of northern Iraq.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Laliş canonical | 1 |
| ლალიში | 1 |
| ლალიში – ერაყი | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9065416 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Laliş Context triple: [Lalish, hasAlternativeName, Laliş]
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A.
Lapseki
Lapseki is a town and district in Çanakkale Province in northwestern Turkey, situated on the Asian shore of the Dardanelles Strait.
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B.
Tawilis
Tawilis is a small freshwater sardine species found only in the Philippines’ Taal Lake and is notable as the world’s only known freshwater sardine.
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C.
Liluah
Liluah is a suburban locality in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India, known for its residential areas and railway facilities near Kolkata.
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D.
Sarikoli
Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.
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E.
Larevat
Larevat is an Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu, closely related to and geographically near the Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin language cluster.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Laliş Target entity description: Laliş is the holiest temple complex and pilgrimage site of the Yazidi people, located in the mountains of northern Iraq.
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A.
Lapseki
Lapseki is a town and district in Çanakkale Province in northwestern Turkey, situated on the Asian shore of the Dardanelles Strait.
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B.
Tawilis
Tawilis is a small freshwater sardine species found only in the Philippines’ Taal Lake and is notable as the world’s only known freshwater sardine.
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C.
Liluah
Liluah is a suburban locality in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India, known for its residential areas and railway facilities near Kolkata.
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D.
Sarikoli
Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.
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E.
Larevat
Larevat is an Oceanic language spoken in Vanuatu, closely related to and geographically near the Uripiv-Wala-Rano-Atchin language cluster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pilgrimage site
ⓘ
religious site ⓘ temple complex ⓘ |
| accessRestrictedTo | Yazidis for certain inner areas ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Melek Taus
ⓘ
Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir ⓘ |
| contains |
Yazidi temples
ⓘ
sacred caves ⓘ sacred springs ⓘ shrines ⓘ tomb of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir ⓘ tombs of religious figures ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| hasApproximateElevation | mountain valley elevation ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
center of Yazidi religious identity
ⓘ
site of major Yazidi religious gatherings ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
conical temple roofs
ⓘ
ritual water sources ⓘ stone-paved paths ⓘ valley setting ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | important Yazidi heritage site ⓘ |
| hasRole |
main pilgrimage destination for Yazidis
ⓘ
spiritual center of Yazidism ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfArchitecture | traditional Yazidi religious architecture ⓘ |
| holiestSiteOf |
Yazidis
ⓘ
Yazidism ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Arabic
ⓘ
Kurdish (Kurmanji) ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nineveh Governorate
ⓘ
mountainous region ⓘ northern Iraq ⓘ |
| near |
Mosul
ⓘ
Shekhan district ⓘ |
| pilgrimageRequiredFor | Yazidis at least once in their lifetime ⓘ |
| protectedBy |
Yazidi community
ⓘ
linked to:
Yazidis
|
| religion | Yazidism ⓘ |
| sacredTo | Yazidis ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | regional conflicts ⓘ |
| usedFor |
baptism ceremonies
ⓘ
pilgrimage rituals ⓘ religious festivals ⓘ vows and offerings ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Yazidi diaspora
ⓘ
linked to:
Yazidis
pilgrims from Iraq ⓘ pilgrims from neighboring countries ⓘ religious scholars ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Laliş Description of subject: Laliş is the holiest temple complex and pilgrimage site of the Yazidi people, located in the mountains of northern Iraq.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Laliş